Just a month after it chucked a professional hacker off one of its flights, and subsequently banned him altogether, United is now offering air miles in return for disclosures of vulnerabilities. But it has issued an outright ban on anyone testing its in-flight systems, saying anyone who does risks…

Hackers have always used public resources to store their malicious files, but Chinese digital spies have taken things a step further to hide their tracks. According to FireEye, they used accounts on a Microsoft IT support site to host command and control links to their malware.

China’s Internet boom appears to have far more significant economic, social, and business implications than the US Internet bubble on the late 1990s. Hardly a day goes by without surprising news on disruptive Internet applications, large investments, and mergers and acquisitions in the sector.

The USA Freedom Act, which would rein in mass data collection by intelligence agencies in the US, moved a step close to becoming law. Lawmakers and tech firms approve, but as it heads to the Senate, privacy advocates claim the bill doesn't go far enough.

"Perhaps we're stuck not only with aging infrastructure but also with obsolete ways of talking about it," writes Rosabeth Moss Kanter in her new book, "Move: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead"

The Venom bug, revealed today by CrowdStrike, looks scary from the logo, but it has limited application and appears to have been successfully patched. But it's a warning to all vendors and users of cloud: attackers can buy their way into servers and start poking around to hack others' virtual…

Prototyping (63%), proof of concept (27%) and production (26%) are the three most dominant uses of 3D printing in Europe today. The same priorities apply to America (prototyping (56%); proof of concept (43%); production (27%) and marketing samples (17%).

Facebook is pushing its vendors to improve pay and benefits for their workers, including wages of at least $15 an hour, in the latest example of Silicon Valley trying to address yawning economic divisions in the region.

Microsoft has been through an immense period of change. New CEO Satya Nadella has been widely lauded and knocked in equal measure, but he is the man now most regularly credited with swinging the big ship around towards open source and cloud-based delivery. Whether previous CEO Steve Ballmer ‘didn’t…

Hands-free car entry systems, which typically unlock car doors without requiring the pushing of any buttons when owners are close to their vehicles, provide great convenience. Unfortunately, however, people have begun marketing for sale devices that allow criminals to exploit a technological…

40% of manufacturers interviewed draw a direct correlation between cloud technologies and their ability to innovate during the next five years.
66% of manufacturers say that cloud technologies have already improved insights into its business.

Tesla Motors investors are confident about the prospects for its venture into the home and business battery market, but more cautious observers point to the company’s probable need to raise new money, and others wonder if this might all be a bit too ambitious.

Is your leadership grateful? Do they really understand how – and how much – you contribute; do they appreciate your unique way of thinking and doing and the value you add to the organization as a result? I’ve noticed that many leaders don’t take enough time to appreciate or pay much attention…

As Airbus sifts through the damage of this weekend’s test flight crash of the ill-fated A400M military transport plane, it falls to the shoulders of Pilar Albiac Murillo, Franco-Spanish woman of “a certain age,” to continue production of the A400M in the company’s facility in Seville, Spain. Four…

In the not-too-distant future, says Benzi Ronen, founder and CEO of Farmigo, consumers will use mobile phones to order perishables like toothpaste and toilet paper from Amazon and then buy their fresh food--from “humanely raised” lamb chops to “locally foraged” ramps--from his six-year-old online…

Not everyone would think to turn a nearly flawless, incredibly rare 60.66-carat cognac diamond into a belt buckle for men. But then, Roland Iten is not your normal thinker. He holds numerous patents on mechanical calibration systems and is a visionary -- turning diamonds into delights for men.